This book emphasizes the need for experimenting with more deliberate and rigorous policy processes to attain balanced regional development, which can promote both equity and efficiency in India’s development discourse. The institutional mechanisms for dealing with regional imbalance in India...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book delves into the widely held belief that the 21st century will be the "Asian Century" by examining the Asia's rapid economic development in the post-war era and the challenges it faces in forging ahead of world leaders in the West. The...

Chapter 1. Introduction by Ratan Khasnabis and Indrani Chakraborty (IDSK) -- Chapter 2. Monetary Policy, Financial Stability and Macroprudential Regulation: An Indian Perspective by Dilip Nachane (Emeritus Professor, IGIDR).- Chapter 3. Crisis as Paradigm Shifter: Reflections on 2008 by Subir...

Information and communication technology (ICT) is considered a significant factor in economic growth and development. Over the past two decades, scholars have studied the impact of ICT on economic growth, but there has been little research that has addressed the impact of ICT on human...

This book examines the role that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) play in growth and economic development promotion, specifically for developing countries. It highlights multiple methodologies for quantifying the impact of ICTs. This includes quantitative and qualitative...

Information Communication Technology and Economic Development reveals new insights regarding the complex process of globalization. It shows how the generation and circulation of intellectual capital in the US and India in ICT have led to greater productivity in the US while facilitating the...

Employing a rigorous analytical framework, the author bases his analysis on the concept of international technological dualism. He argues that one possible solution to the problem is the availability of affordable technologies, such as low-cost computers, which are specifically designed for the...

This book focuses on what can be learned from the complex processes of industrial, technological and organizational change in the sectoral system of information hardware (IH). The IH innovation system is deliberately chosen to illustrate how sectors act as seeds of economic progress. Detailed...

Development Connections takes stock of recent advances in what is broadly known as Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The authors seek to discover how information and telecommunication technologies affect both the public and private sectors in Latin America and how they can...

Begrüßung -- Einführung -- World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) -- Telekommunikation und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung: Politische Erfahrung und Herausforderung -- Technologiediffusion und globale Wissensvernetzung -- Technologie- und Wissensdiffusion als Heraufsorderung an die Player am...